Wind generation of electricity rose by 66 percent in the first six months of the year before producer incentives were scaled back, energy officials said yesterday. The growth spurt was mainly centred on the north of Germany and the state … Read More

The number of foreigners from crisis-hit EU countries receiving unemployment benefit in Germany has risen sharply, a newspaper reported today, as lawmakers mull tightening rules for foreign job-seekers. More migrants from Eastern Europe and countries hit by the Euro crisis … Read More

Federal justice minister Heiko Maas will seek to criminalize the buying and selling of stolen data following Tuesday’s news of the mass theft of login details by a Russian hacker group. “At the moment we’re checking how we can close … Read More

German plans to impose a highway toll on foreign drivers are against EU law, according to research from Germany’s own parliament. Lawyers from the parliament’s Research Services presented a 23-page report stating that Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s plan would lead to … Read More

Two thirds of Berlin’s 12,000 tourist apartments advertised on sites such as Airbnb were being run illegally from Friday following a law change, leaving hosts open to potential punishment. People renting out their apartments to tourists had until Thursday to … Read More

Germany is the most energy efficient country in the world, according to rankings by an environmental group. The award came as a new poll showed support for switching to green energy was slipping in the wake of high bills. The … Read More

A new, permanent exhibition dedicated to German resistance under the Nazis opened its doors to visitors in Berlin on Wednesday. The museum profiles groups of German men and women who risked and lost their lives fighting Hitler. Berlin’s newly-modernized German … Read More

German police were partly responsible for training ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych`s riot police, the government has confirmed. German police spent three years training Yanukovych`s riot police and border guards in what the Bild newspaper late yesterday descibred as “intensive co-operation”. … Read More

Opposition politicians have demanded government clarification of reports German secret services spied for the NSA. It came as intelligence chiefs confirmed closer surveillance of social network users. Domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said on … Read More

Nearly three quarters of Germans would oppose NATO having permanent NATO military bases in eastern Europe as requested by Poland and the Baltic states because of a perceived threat from Russia, according to a new poll released on Wednesday. The … Read More

Germany took in 19 percent of the EU´s asylum-seekers in 2013 - the highest number in the 28-country union after Sweden. Despite the government’s plan to make changes in the asylum law for refugees from the Balkan countries, Germany granted … Read More

Germany will accept 10,000 more refugees from war-ravaged Syria, officials said on Thursday, even as Berlin faced calls from rights groups to do more. Interior ministers at both federal and regional level agreed to double Germany’s intake of Syrian refugees, a … Read More

Germany exported almost €6 billion worth of arms last year, including a record amount to countries outside of the EU and Nato. Its biggest customers have questionable human rights records. Weapon manufacturers sent €562 million worth of arms to developing … Read More